Former Dallas Cowboys coach Wade Phillips returns to Dallas for first time since being fired in 2010

Summary of 9 articles · Updated Aug 29, 2013

This will be Wade Phillips’ first game back inside the Cowboys’ home stadium since Jones fired the head coach after Dallas started the 2010 season 1-7. Most recently, Phillips was the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys and today marks the first time since b… (more)eing fired in the middle of the 2010 season that Phillips has returned to Jerryworld. Of course, Phillips’ son, Wes Phillips, is the Cowboys’ tight ends coach. Texans assistant Wade Phillips will walk into AT&T Stadium tonight as one of the best defensive coordinators in the game. Phillips, now Houston's defensive coordinator, has been either the head coach or an assistant for nine different NFL franchises. It’s a contest that will be played mostly by backups and roster-fillers, and a little different than a regular-season matchup, but Phillips' return is worth noting. That would’ve been better, but I know I did the best I could while I was there, and I don’t look back and say, “What if this would’ve happened?’ or ‘What if that would’ve happened?’”

Phillips' thoughts on Jones, Dallas still fond

ARLINGTON, Texas -- There was a point last season when Wade Phillips noted that if he held a grudge against every team he'd once called an employer, that would cover about half the teams in the NFL. He's close. Phillips, now Houston's defensive coordina…

Wes Phillips has made his own name

IRVING, Texas – Before Wes Phillips joined the Dallas Cowboys' coaching staff in 2007, he was a quarterbacks coach at Baylor for one year and spent two years coaching the position at West Texas A&M. His first official coaching job was as a student a…

Wade Phillips has no regrets about time with Cowboys

Texans assistant Wade Phillips will walk into AT&T Stadium tonight as one of the best defensive coordinators in the game. And even though he was fired as the Cowboys head coach in 2010, he said he had no regrets about the time he spent working for o…